Hriday Narayan Dikshit

Hriday Narayan Dikshit
17th Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
30 March 2017 – 28 March 2022
Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath
Preceded byMata Prasad Pandey
Succeeded bySatish Mahana
Member of the Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh
In office
1985–1996
ConstituencyPurwa
In office
11 March 2017 – 10 March 2022
ConstituencyBhagwantnagar
Member of Legislative Council, Uttar Pradesh
In office
7 July 2010 – 6 July 2016
ConstituencyUttar Pradesh
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs & Panchayati Raj, Government of Uttar Pradesh
In office
26 June 1995 – 18 October 1995
Personal details
Born (1946-12-25) 25 December 1946 (age 77)[citation needed]
Unnao, United Provinces, British India[citation needed]
CitizenshipIndia
NationalityIndia
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseMadhuri Dixit
ChildrenMaya Shukla, Arun Kumar Dixit, Dilip Kumar Dixit, Shushil Dixit and Mukta Dubey
EducationM.A (Economics)
Alma materKanpur University
ProfessionIndian Politician
AwardsGanesh Shanker Vidhyarthi Award by Madhya Pradesh Government, Bhanu Pratap Shukla Journalism Award, Deendayal and Upadhyay Award by Chhoti Khatu Library, Rajasthan, Rastriya Sahitya Sarjak Award by Madhya Pradesh Bhartiya Sahitya Sabha, Baburao Paradkar Vishnu Patrakarita Shikhar Samman by Akhil Bhartiya Hindi Patrakar Sangh, Rangbharti and Dr. Hadgewar Pragya Samman for the year 2019 by Libray, Bengal Sabha West

Hriday Narayan Dikshit is an Indian politician and the former speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was a member of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Seventeenth Vidhan Sabha, currently representing Bhagwantnagar (Assembly constituency) of Unnao district.